Europäisch-jüdische Studien Beiträge -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews - Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses -- Context -- Orientalism, Germany, and the Jews -- Jewish Self-Orientalization -- Gender, Sexuality, and Orientalism -- Instead of a Conclusion: Further Perspectives -- Asians in Europe - Reading German-Jewish History through a Postcolonial Lens -- German Orientalism -- Studying Jews and Muslims: Historical Roots and Institutional Frameworks -- The Gender Dimension -- Jews and Orientalism -- Conclusions -- Prussians, Jews, Egyptians? - Berlin Jewish Salonières around 1800 and Their Guests. Discursive Constructions of Equality and Otherness -- Jewish Women in Berlin around 1800 and their "Salons" -- Salon Letters and "Salon Tone" -- Conversion and (No) Scandal in 1799 -- "A Cognition of Jewishness" - Salon Guests and the Jewish Body -- From Praising the Settee to the "Judensofa" -- "This is not Jew-Hatred yet." Reactions of the Salon Women -- Conclusion -- "Good to Think" - (Re)Conceptualizing German-Jewish Orientalism -- Orientalization as a Tool for Negotiating the Emancipation of Women and Jews in Fanny Lewald's Novel Jenny (1843) -- (Re)Conceptualizing German-Jewish Orientalism -- Ephraim Moses Lilien - The Figure of the "Beautiful Jewess," the Orient, the Bible, and Zionism -- Photography and Graphic Art - Authentication and Artistic Design -- (Cultural) Zionism and the "Beautiful Jewess" Figure -- Horace Vernet: Revitalizing the Bible or the New Religious Painting of Orientalism -- Zionism, Colonialism, and the German Empire - Herzl's Gloves and Mbwapwa's Umbrella -- Colonial Shibboleths -- The Ambiguity of Mbwapwa's Umbrella -- The Ambivalence of Herzl's Gloves -- Gloves Off! - Showing their Hands.

Kafka's "Schakale und Araber" and the Question of Genre - Gleichnis, Tiergeschichte, or dialektisches Bild? -- What Species of Gattung? -- A Ménagerie à trois -- A Jackal of All Trades -- From Animadversions to Animal Versions -- Desire, Excess, and Integration - Orientalist Fantasies, Moral Sentiments, and the Place of Jews in German Society as Portrayed in Films of the Weimar Republic -- The Gaze of the Jewess: Eros and Death in Paul Wegener's Film Der Golem (1920) -- Florian -- Miriam -- The Golem -- Order and Orientalism -- The Gaze of the Archduchess: Desire and Tradition in E. A. Dupont's Film Das alte Gesetz (1923) -- Journey to Vienna -- Erotic Desire -- Longing, Shame, and Reconciliation -- Difference and Dual Integration or Der Golemversus Das alte Gesetz -- Cinema as Moral Laboratory -- Jewish Drag - The Ostjude as Anti-Zionist Hero in Arnold Zweig's De Vriendt kehrt heim -- Zionism, Gender, and Sexuality -- Border Crossings: Ostjuden, Orientals, and the Return to Origins -- The Sacrifice of Isaac: Envisioning a Jewish-Arab Coalition -- Re-Orientalizing the Jew - Zionist and Contemporary Israeli Masculinities -- New Models, Old Patterns -- The Modern Discourse on Jewish Sexuality, Effeminacy, and Orientalism -- From Jewish to Israeli Masculinity -- The Continued Evolution of Jewish-Israeli Masculinity -- "All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews." - The "Femininity" Game of Deception: Female Jew, femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive -- Jewish Cultural Studies, Feminism, and Queer Theory -- Between the Poles of Oriental Femininity and Jewishness: the "Beautiful Jewess" -- Salome: femme fatale Orientale or belle Juive? -- Oscar Wilde's and Maud Allan's Salome as aFigure of the Third -- The Psychoanalytical Theory of Femininity and the Omission of the "Jewish female" from Early Scholarly Discourse.

The Trace of Repression of the Jewish Woman in Freud's Psychoanalysis -- Judith or the Taboo of Virginity -- Between Orientalization and Self-Orientalization - Remarks on the Image of the "Beautiful Jewess" in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century European Literature -- Images of Jewish Women -- Orientalization -- Self-Orientalization -- Conclusion -- To See or Not to See - The Gaze and Gender in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Cultures -- Religion and Gender Order -- Religion and Image -- Veils in Action - The "Oriental Other" and Its Performative Deconstruction in Modern Fashion and Art -- In-between: The Performativity of Vestimentary Signs -- Veiling/Unveiling: Dance and Design around 1900 -- Hijabising: Contemporary Veil Art and Performance -- List of illustrations and acknowledgements -- Embodied Protest - Nakedness and the Partition of Gazes -- Introduction -- "My body belongs to me" -- Naked Protest and Critique of Islam -- Travelling Images -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Archival Materials -- Films -- Printed and Internet Sources -- List of Contributors -- Index.